Brief Content: Forward by Fleet Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. First time coverage on a system-wide basis SLBM systems, anti-ship and and anti-submarine missile weapons, ship-borne air-defense missile and artillery systems and more. There is also detailed examinination of torpedo systems, ASW mines and sea mines, anti-mine weapons. Beyond weapon platforms, there is...

Brief content: The first volume in the series is packed with detailed information on Russia's nuclear arsenal. Chapters highlight all elements: from design to production, deployment to storage. All relevant systems related to strategic weapons are also covered: command and control systems, geodetic support for targeting, and detailed descriptions of operations, maintenance, storage and...

The children's book classic in the famous English adaptation by Mark Twain, with all illustrations and the German original in the appendix.

This true story is a multifaceted picture of modern Russia and Europe, a financial thriller, and a tragicomedy of how life throws together human fates and ambitions to keep this world revolving. Dmitry Pototskiy, a Moscow ranking official, abandons his career in government and returns to the business world. Now his challenge is to find access to unadvertised, high-yield Trade Programs that...

In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

A review of the Czech arms industry.

Anna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life under the iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor’s The Berlin Wall and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to...

In the series 'Exclusive reading in English' you will find the best classics in English, you can get acquainted with popular works of world literature in the original language. In punishment for rebelling against their capital, the Capitol, the twelve Districts of the Panem State must each year provide one boy and one girl to participate in the Hunger Games: a deadly battle until the last...

In the series 'Exclusive reading in English' you will find the best classics in English, you can get acquainted with the most popular works of world literature in the original language. Despite everything, Katniss and Pete manage to survive in the ruthless Hunger Games. However, the daring trick with poisonous berries, which allowed both of them to return home, does not pass without a trace....

Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...